At 10:57 AM 7/19/00 -0600, you wrote:
>I'd love to know how you solo'd effectively at levels 18-22. For me the few
>times I tried it was death unless I could find a blue "oracle" type caster.
>No chains, No fear. Sure DDD, and CoD do decent damage but avoiding adds
>was impossible nearly at that level range. Now had Lullaby been working I
>imagine I could have pulled it off, but those levels were horrific for me
>because it was basically:
i soloed with hymn/cod/ddd at the aviak village killing low rooks/darters/egrets
up to about 20. that's with instruments. now i use largos/cod/ddd at 21. i've
soloed warders and defenders in cazic and dry bones and ghouls in south ro recently.
oh, you probly won't be able to do defenders unless you are twinked. i'm pretty
well twinked cuz i left a lot of equipment from my level 50 bard when i switched
servers. mostly lambent except for ssb/azure sleeves.
>Log on, do /w friends all, /w armigers all.
>If no one in my area, Log off and log on as secondary.
>
>I found that soloing those levels was nigh on impossible, and grouping with
>pickup groups was even more suicidal. Invariably I'd die 3 or 4 times and
>end up barely breaking even for the evening. Biggest problem for me at
>those levels was that if anyone in the group screwed up, the instant result
>was 1 dead bard. Didn't matter what the screwup was, bad pull, out of
>control pet, linkdead tank, etc. End result was 1 dead bard and possibly 1
>or 2 other deaths.
well, the only way every mistake ended up with 1 dead bard is if that bard either
wasn't paying attention to the individual situation or didn't know how to adapt to
the situation. just as one example, what did you do when there was a bad pull?
i would break out weapons and just bellow at my current level of 21. at 23, i might
twist bellow and chains. another thing that is important is knowing when to run for
the zone and to just do it once the call goes out. in the 18-21 level range you should
be able to tank some on single pulls even with bronze armor. if there is a 3 or 4 mob
pull and the only tank goes ld, then just call out for everyone to zone and go.
>Soloing at 27+ has been possible, even fairly comfortable, but that long
>stretch from 18th to 23rd was painful.
>
> Kitasi